Mr. Incorrect · Malcolm Todd

75 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 114 BPM, 2:27 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-38 and 71-73 -- 63.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 114 BPM
MR. INCORRECT · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 74 and 75.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 74-75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 5 sections: 49 keep time, 2 are fills and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-38.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesBCS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mr. Incorrect?

114 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Mr. Incorrect hard to play on drums?

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Mr. Incorrect?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 74 and 75.

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